Sister Kylee had a baby!

Fun Rebeka fact that, if you're a long time reader, you probably already know: I was in a sorority in college. I lived in the sorority house with 90something girls all 4 years I spent at the University of Washington. I had and have a lot of mixed feelings about my experience but I did make some life long friends and learned a few valuable lessons (ex: sleeping porches teach you how to sleep anywhere, shared bathrooms get rid of bladder shyness real quick, and a million days of small talk during recruitment means that I can hold a conversation with just about anyone).

During college I shared a room with my "sister roommies" Kylee and Erin. I lived with them both together in a tiny room, and I've lived separately with each of them too during various quarters in the house. Then, when college was over, during my second and third years of law school and while I was studying for the Bar Exam, I lived with Kylee and Erin in a lovely house in Wallingford. When we moved out of that house Kylee moved in with her boyfriend Jason. They got engaged shortly after moving in together, got married the following summer and three weeks ago, she had a baby. I got to meet baby Nolan yesterday at a happy hour with my pledge class (PC05) - we started freshman year with 30something girls and when we graduated there were only 11 of us, 6 of us live in Seattle still.

^^SISTER AUNTIES!!^^
^^L->R: Kate, me, Erin, Elizabeth, Kylee (and Nolan), and Julia^^

Another fun fact, I call a lot of the girls I’m closest with from the sorority “sister.” It started as a joke during recruitment our sophomore year that just kind of stuck. It got a little confusing at times when Kylee, Erin and I lived together in our house and we would scream “sister!” from up or down stairs to one another. Surprisingly, though, we almost always knew who the other was shouting for!

Anyway, Happy Hour last night was fun. We chatted/caught up on big life events, ate pizza, drank wine and played pass the baby. While I’m not the hugest fan of random kids (ex: running into me at the grocery store, screaming when I’m trying to eat dinner, being misbehaved in general), I do really love a lot of babes and I always appreciate a good baby snuggle – especially when they’re peacefully sleeping or happily awake.

^^Me with 6 1/2lb, 3.5 week old baby Nolan James Sharp – isn’t he tiny?!^^

It’s pretty crazy to me that 2 of my sorority sisters now have kids, 4 are married and most of the rest of us have big-girl-jobs. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone in the Spring when we hopefully all go to Austin, TX. for a PC05 5 year reunion trip!

Congrats again, Sister Kylee! I can’t believe you made a baby!!

^^Kylee and Nolan^^

I love weddings (true story)

Weddings are one of my very favorite things. What’s not to love? They’re filled with joy and love, friends, wine, great food and dancing! Oh the dancing!

This past Friday I took off work early and headed to Yakima for my sorority sister, Stephanie’s wedding. It was beautiful. She was beautiful. The whole thing was a blast!

In case you don’t believe me, I’ll tell AND show you why it was the very best:

I had a hot date who left his vacation early to come meet me in Yakima for the fun:

My sorority sisters were there (PC05):

I got to catch up with Danielle and Steffen, who I hadn’t seen since their wedding:

 and maybe even make super top secret plans with Steffen!

And (maybe my favorite part?), I got to drink wine and dance with some of my favorites. They even played CALL ME MAYBE! At which point Danielle RAN to me, I knew we were friends for a reason!:
        

Don’t worry, this is just me singing “and this is CRA-ZY” as Dustin plays photographer:

And then we went to the afterparty. Where I took a Patron shot or two (definitely two, which I didn’t need). But I wouldn’t have traded this night for the world.

Congratulations Stephanie and Michael!! 

Sarah’s Wedding

Ohh this weekend was another long one. I went home to my parents' house for some un-successful hunting on Saturday and came back to Seattle Sunday. 8 hours of driving in 2 days = a lot. Especially when you don’t get a deer like you were hoping you would. Also, I got tasked with writing a pre-trial motion on Friday that was due this morning. Gah. So much. Anyway, enough complaining. On Friday night I went to my friend Sarah’s wedding with my roommate Kylee (we were each other's dates, because we’re really cool, obviously).

Her wedding was at Hidden Meadows which is about 45 minutes north-ish of Seattle, in Snohomish. The venue was really cute – I was definitely a fan. The ceremony started at 5pm and then after that there was a cocktail hour, during which we mingled and enjoyed some wine. AND my “big sis” (and her awesome husband, Rick) was there. I hadn’t seen her in what seems like forever, so it was really fun catching up. Kylee and I hung out with Marian (big sis) and Rick basically the whole time. It was a good time.

Me, Marian and Kylee at the Cocktail hour:

Side note: Marian is my “big sis” from the sorority, and Sarah, the bride, was my “twin” meaning that we had the same “big” AKA Marian. And Kylee was our sorority sister too. Sarah, Kylee and I lived together in the same room in the sorority our Sophomore year and it was a super good time (think love sacs and many secrete McDonalds trips and forcing boys to do things for us, like put together futons and go on Dorritos runs for us during Finals haha).  And Now Kylee is my roommie again. So much Zeta Love!

Marian, Sarah, Kylee and Me at the Cocktail Hour:

After the cocktail hour they did toasts and fed us mini-foods (like sliders and other appetizer like snacks) which were delicious. Then Sarah and Collin cut their cake and had their first dance while we at mini-Trophy-cupcakes and had some more wine and then we got the dance party started. Marian, Rick, Kylee and I danced up a storm! My favorite was when they played Shout! – it really is the best wedding song (everyone think about the scene in Wedding Crashers ha). And we also shuffled to Party Rock (obvi).

Then, after an hour or two of dance party and snacks (they definitely brought out MORE sliders and cones of waffle fries = best idea ever), I was exhausted (Dustin’s Birthday the night before then working on that motion all day took it out of me)! So, I said goodbye to the wonderful bride and headed home to bed so I could wake up early the next morning and head back to White Salmon.

It was an awesome wedding! Congratulations Sarah and Collin!

MRB’s birthday fun

Last night Erin and I went to this lovely lady’s house for her birthday celebration:

Mary Rose was our sorority sister in college, and last night we were celebrating her 22nd birthday (that made me feel old fo sho).

HAYYY I’m old:

But it was alright. I had a good time seeing some of my beautiful sorority sisters even though Erin and I were the oldest sisters there.

From left to right: Me, MRB, Erin and A Jo

Oh and one more success of the night: A Jo successfully sent out her first ever twit-pic! Whoo! I felt like a good person for showing her how :)

Clearly we were both really excited:

And that’s what I did last night, even though I was really really tired.

Good story, right?